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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Gardening

I apologize for neglecting my blog for so long, but I've been too busy with my regular springtime activity, i.e. gardening. I love my flower garden, and consider planting and playing in the dirt to be a wonderful act of creativity. A garden is truly a living work of art.

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes.Art is knowing which ones to keep.- Scott Adams

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.- Claude Monet

Take thy plastic spade,It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,They are thy colours.~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782

I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. ~John Erskine

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.- Julia Cameron

Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying work of art. Every individual, with thought, patience and a large portion of help from nature, has it in them to create their own private paradise: truly a thing of beauty and a joy for ever. - Geoff Hamilton, Paradise Gardens

"The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in allthe details of daily life, and in elevating them to art."- William Morris

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters isthe immersion of the hands in the earth, thatancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.- Margaret Attwood

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."~ Rachel Carson

2 comments:

Beautiful pictures! I enjoy my flower garden now that our weather is warmer too. Things have started to bloom and I can enjoy looking out my studio window at some of the beauty there. Thanks for sharing. As you said so well, gardens are a work of art in their own right. :)

Sharmon Davidson

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